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Residents near Rt 33 file lawsuit over proposed Kensington Expressway tunnel project in Buffalo

Instead of improving their living space residents of McCarley Gardens Apartments say recent renovations have actually made things worse. The $57 million in upgrades come from a state-wide rehabilitation project of affordable housing complexes.

At least once each year, Pastor Kinzer Pointer from Agape Fellowship Baptist Church on Northland Avenue in Buffalo takes new UB Medical students on a tour of Jefferson Avenue, pointing out the issues that they need to have awareness of and people they should have empathy for. Then Jay Moran brings us excerpts from a recent “Making Spaces” discussion at Buffalo Arts Studio with Artist Matt Kenyon, Fruit Belt activist Dennice Barr, UB professor Henry Louis Taylor Jr. and others on art, urban planning and economic justice.

Members of the 716 Play Fair Coalition gathered on Wednesday to call for significant community reinvestment as part of the $1.4 Billion stadium deal for the hometown team.

Following last Tuesday’s raucous public hearing in Common Council chambers regarding new district boundaries, local community activists are calling for more transparency from the council and work with community groups on a mapping compromise that works best for everyone.